socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

In an age of ever increasing marketing spend to attract customers, how do you make sure you aren't spending more acquiring a company than they are worth? Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. What is Retina Go?

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2012

The company said the acquisition will help with improved customer acquisition and retention of its current customer, allow it to target a new segment of consumers with new banking and payment products, as well as let it enter the mobile wallet, reward, and payment market. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Under Hsieh’s leadership, Zappos revolutionized the apparel industry, and e-commerce in general, by being one of the first to prioritize customer satisfaction and service. To build trust in e-commerce with the greater public, his company came up with innovative ideas and fostered new customer behaviors.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , the provider of online cloud services, e-fax, backup, and other services, is continuing its acquisition streak this morning, saying that it has acquired UK-based Zimo Communications Ltd. The acquisition is the third already for j2 Global in 2012.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2019

Vincente Capital acquired ITI in November of 2012. ITI's DMV software is used by departments of motor vehicles to track vehicle registrations, manage the production of and inventory for license plates and driver's licenses, and administer skills and knowledge tests to DMV customers. Financial terms of the sale were not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. Look for competitors that have the same capabilities as you in a different market area, or for different customers. Hire people smarter than you.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , the provider of online cloud services, e-fax, backup, and other services, is continuing its acquisition streak this morning, saying that it has acquired UK-based Zimo Communications Ltd. The acquisition is the third already for j2 Global in 2012.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 -- Digital LA - Startups Go Social (SMW LA) Join us for our panel with startups which focus on social media - and are savvy about using social media themselves. SMWLAstartups. Panelists include: Amanada MacNaughton, PromoJam; Jaime Sarachit, TicketMob; Fei Xiao, Planana; Jeff Jackel, BuzzMob; Marni Borek, Vyclone.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2012

Thursday, January 26, 2012 -- Realizing Value from Innovation. Properly applied, the knowledge you gain from this workshop will help you reduce your capital needs, secure funding more easily, accelerate customer acquisition and growth, increase profitability and cashflow, and maximize the value potential of your new technology.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2012

What was Southern California's technology community most interested in 2012? numbers should be released in the next week for 2012. BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. As 2012 turned.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The deal is worth $6M in upfront payments, plus payments linked to revenue in 2010/2011, and 2011/2012. employs approximately 600, who provide wireless product development, software engineering, and product testing for Kyocera Wireless, and also develops custom handsets for Indian service providers. to IT firm MindTree Ltd.,

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. And today it was listed in the Best Apps of the Week by Apple. The team has put in a huge effort to get to this day – and I hope they’re sleeping well tonight.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages. From a customer standpoint, though, it's pretty clear. So, from the customer side, it was much easier. You have to make sure your cost of acquisition, retention rates, and conversion metrics are all in place.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Approachable.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

And though the terms of the deal are not yet public Microsoft has big plans with the acquisition. Kurt DelBene, president, Office Division for Microsoft in a statement said ; “The acquisition of PPI allows us to draw on our complementary strengths, and we’re excited to accelerate this market evolution”.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

However, our customers, even with Concur, find those solutions didn't meet all of their needs. We gained quite a number of customers very rapidly, and have 60 percent of the global top 100 legal firms in the world now using our system. With this acquisition, that has put Concur into SAP.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

If online retailing is one of the most tumultuous and fast-changing corners of the Internet, the growth of marketing technologies that retailers use to serve their customers and to personalize their shopping experience has been an even wilder ride. The differentiator is going to be customer experience.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media. He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Contact us at sponsor@techzulu.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc., Custom ad deals and partnerships. He continues to sit on the board of Sorenson Media.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. Sign up customers who are paying you money for a service you can’t 100% guarantee is going to be operational for the full period that they’re expecting. I didn’t want to disappoint my customers. I didn’t sleep much back then. And yet you have to.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2012

500 Startups add that successful startups don’t just need great coders and designers but require scalable and cost-effective customer acquisition which they help startups at. The program kicked off on October 4, 2012. 33 companies are in this batch. 33 companies are in this batch.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 16, 2012

A TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Finalist, Gyft said it was giving away $250k in free gift cards on its launch but that’s not what they are up to now. The merchants can drive customer acquisition, increase shopper interaction and drive social engagement.

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Mobile Google Email Competition 70

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. We were quite surprised to learn about the extent of your operations here. How big is YP?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of January 22, 2012. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Event Details.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. We were quite surprised to learn about the extent of your operations here. How big is YP.com?

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The top five tournaments for “StarCraft 2″ in the month of June 2012 had combined prize-pools of over $150,000. If you said 6 million (as of April 2012), you’d be close, because JustFab is growing by nearly to 500,000 members a month. In 2012, ShoeDazzle jumped from 3 to 13 million members. Brandon Beck – Riot Games.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve been an avid user of Plug.DJ’s music discovery site since early 2012, have discovered a ton of music there (which, by the way, I’m still listening to today) and originally covered their $1.25M in seed-round funding from Javelin Venture Partners. was founded in February 2012 by a team of passionate music fans.

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Startup Product Sites Tool 107

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program. Gold Sponsor. .

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program. Gold Sponsor. .

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In her interview, Eisnor discusses the nature of user acquisition, and the growing connection between cars and mobile apps. Listen in to learn why Swiftkey chose to focus on Android first, and how it rose to the best-selling Android app of 2012. What’s the most valuable kind of customer? Does gamification actually work?

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Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We manage user login so businesses can focus on core product and engage customers faster. Fun fact: iWaboo Group was founded in 2012 as a pure retail company that owned gadget concept stores in Italy. Toys, treats, and training guides customized for your puppy. Cirrus Identity. AngelList: [link]. Founders: Dedra Chamberlin.

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